ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 19

November 2003
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Selected voice stations

E03/E03a

Apart from the regulations concerning the reception of wireless stations within Great Britain advice on reporting intelligence matters also exists in the form of DA notices.

Whoever the messages, from E03/E03a, are aimed at ENIGMA 2000 has no wish to 'advertise' the existence of these stations to those who may not support the best interests of Great Britain, or its representatives abroad. Although we are unable to stop discussion of E03/E03a, ENIGMA 2000 will remain aloof from any such discussion and will not be including reports or analysis on E03/E03a.

E05

After some silence E05 is back with us; AnonUK heard E05 and sent this message to ENIGMA2000:
"E05 is back with us, on at present on 8110 calling 652" then following up with the second frequency.[Thanks AnonUK]

PoSW wrote to say that he too listened for E05 and discovered that carriers were up as early as 1030z on 8110kHz and its parallel freq of 10583kHz. PoSW also noted the nearby XJT which causes some concern.[Tnx PoSW]

A listing of E05 freqs can be found on: http://www.cvni.net/radio/skeds/output/E05.deprec.txt

On 01/10 PLondon lugged his RX out during his lunch hour to discover that the signal on 8110 was S9+ whilst the //10583kHz was below par and smothered by a noisy signal on top of it. Deliberate or just one of those things?

Recently, 22/10, PoSW wrote that he had lost track of the 1200z E05 on 8,110 // 10,583 kHz noting that it did not seem to be around on Saturdays and Sundays and there was no sign of any other E05 schedules.

Peter then followed up with a ‘flash’ message to E2k that stated:

LATE NEWS ITEM!! :- TWO KNOWN E05 FREQUENCIES, 8080 & 8110kHz NOTED THIS MORNING, SAT 25^th 0715z S9+ CARRIERS MOD WITH 1016Hz TONE, BOTH WENT QRT 0729z

This is definitely worth keeping an eye out for – Thanks for this message PoSW.

E06

Voice Variant:
RNGB caught an English number station at1700z 11/09 on 8170kHz (lsb well suppressed). He had never heard this OM before and asked if it was E20?

Like myself he had never heard E20. [two messages, different recipients, messages in different voices].

This sent a dual message; ID '671' repeated for 4 mins then 840 (35 groups); '671' repeated for short while then 928 (30 groups) each group repeated once.

The second message broke down half way through, '671' repeated, then message continued from break, ending 928x2 30x2 00000. RN GB recorded the whole transmission on tape sending both ENIGMA 2000 and Ary a 1 min sound clip for identification purposes.

The station has since been identified as a voice variant E06 and will be noted in the control list.

[Thanks to AnonUK, MikeL, PLondon and RNGB with the identification of this variant].

The sound sample can be heard in the Files Section, Sound Samples as 'E06 voice variant.

Of the usual E06 PoSW writes, "The E06 English Man continues to be busy; the Saturday 1230z + 1330z which was a regular schedule for several years seems to have gone - I havn't been able to this one since July. If it is still around it must be either a very weak signal or hidden inside the broadcast bands. However, there is a schedule running on the second and fourth Saturdays in the month at 1400z, repeated 1500z; and furthermore has been noted with two seperate transmissions on at the same time with the same DK/GC but a different call, most bizarely on Saturday 11-Oct at 1500z when the two seperate E06s were logged with the same message and were mixing with each other."

PoSW's E06 log:

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[TnxPoSW]

Other E06 logs:

Gert reported hearing E06 sending ‘123456789’ repeated at 2050z 19/09 on 5731kHz:

E07

AnonUK kindly notified us of the E07 afternoon fixtures for Sunday and Wednesday and remarked that it "Seems a bit silly to use that 13828 frequency with so many high power BC stations on there." PoSW also offered the same information and logs.

[This high freq use also been noticed with other stations too, notably the Polytones].

From AnonUK: E07 Sunday and Wednesday 1700z 13828, 1720z 12185, 1740z 10827kHz: ID 818.

From RNGB2000z 13416, 2020z 11625, 2040z 10292kHz

FromGert, hfd and AF:

PoSW notified us of the Thursday schedule, and new freqs for October:

[Tnx PoSW].

RN GB sent his September log for E07:

RN GB was the first to let us know that the early and late evening freqs for October were:

Followed by PoSW with:

2010/2030z 8077/6926kHz which he noticed was sending 712 712 721 000 on 02/10

On 23^rd October 03 PoSW noted the Thursday schedule, 2010z 8077kHz, 2030z 6926kHz and 2050z 5216kHz [Jet QRM on last transmission] sent 721 721 721 1 dk/gc 930 49 x2

RN GB and Gert’s October log:

E10

From our E10 Desk: Sept 03

Bold Print Denotes Repeated message. <> Denotes From - To. No Change To Schedule Heard

E10 Log Comments

Reception during the first half of September has been very poor at this location here in Kent

Thanks to J6m A frequency that is not often reported : EZI on 15.980. I will add this to the ever increasing freq list.

A Big thankyou to JC Malta for his extensive E10 logs for Sept of which I append here, I have re-arranged his lists to make for a more easier reading and saving of space and have highlighted the repeated group messages. I hope this meets with your approval JC. JC 's overall reception was reported good

©BMDartford Sept 2003

From our E10 Desk Oct 03

Bold Print Denotes Repeated message. <> Denotes From - To. No Change To Schedule Heard

E10 Log Comments

MIW

On November 2001 when I first began listening to E10 transmissions, MIW2 was regularly heard and still is, on various frequencies transmitting at 15 mins past the hour for 5mins with nothing said other than the call sign. On the other hand, MIW was to become in comparison a rare event. According to my logs, in Jan 2002 MIW sent a G26 message on 4 occasions, in March 2002, a group 35 message. In Aug 2002 it was heard 3 times, groups 37,33,20. And the last time I heard MIW was on Sept 10th 2002 sending a group 16 message. [In all 9 times in one year].

So it was with much pleasure that on 3 Oct this year at 20:15hrs that I picked up MIW transmitting on 7.605 for 5min with no group message. Better still on the 7th Oct at 17:15 hrs was MIW transmitting on 6.930 & 7.605 a group 15 message which it repeated 10 times finally ending at 18:22hrs. Conditions were not that good but I managed to logged the transmission and also recorded it. In all 10 times in one day.

MIW G15
ECOSG DOTOA SMSCV TDAEM NBDZV DSEHX GJUDQ GNZHY LIXSU DNIER CUZGZ HULYW GFXSX MEGQZ WEIQO

SYN2 Seems to have temporary? dropped Freq 6.912 one of its better freq's, having not heard a transmission on that freq since it made the change on the 5th Oct to 3.640

Other stations who changed onto previously used freq's were SYN2 3.640, CIO2 4.360 & 5.170, MIW2 4.780 and PCD on 6.270. New freq's not previously recorded by me were VLB2 3.360 & 8.127 and KPA2 on 7.690.

Again many thanks to JC Malta for his October Logs.

Thanks to RN GB for the following from his October log:

Thanks to all contributors to this column.

©BMDartford Oct 2003 [Tnx Bob]

E11

AnonUK writes :

"Concerning the E11 message mentioned in NL18, and the first and last group of it being 77777. This is nothing new, as the morse side, M03 has been sending that for at least 3 years.

The 77777 group is sent by M03, only when the message GC is between 30 and 37. The other messages sent by M03 with a GC in the 50s, does not have that 77777 group in it. I did notice some time ago, that with the messages in the 50s, the same message was repeated one year later, but I do not think they do that now."

[Tnx AnonUK]

E15

We print the known schedule [as prev issue 6]:

E17Z

E23

Best frequency is usually 8188kHz. 4 weekly cycle starting on the first Monday of the Month.

Transmits Monday Wednesday and Thursday:

Week 4 in AM only.

Tnx Pat Private

E25

This station is back! AnonUK emailed 02/09 to report, "E25 was on today for certain, a better signal than Saturday 30/08, but still not very strong."

Manolis, Crete posted via the group:

• 9450 kHz (you know that) Tuesday 2/9/03

1239z Carrier on.
1240z Arab Music begins.
1244z Music ends, man started calling "22 222 222…" (I think he forgot the first "2" in the beginning)
1248z He stopped calling "222". Said "Message, message, message".
Message follows (16 x 4fgs):

7496 3161 3310 0603 6582
8530 3304 1920 9177 7288
7467 4674 7787 4361 9306
3310

1249z "Repeat, repeat, repeat". Repeats the above
1251z "End of message, end of transmission". Carrier went down.

Comments about signal strength:

• E25: 5-7 out of 7, lots of fading, averaging to 6/7. Also modulation was kind of "shallow".

• Arab BC Station 9460 kHz: Again 5-7/7 but mostly 7/7 slower fading.

[Tnx Manolis].

The Arab station on 9460kHz is Radio Turkey and probably not a pointer to E25.

At 1246z on 14/10 PLondon received a telephone message from Mike of Kent suggesting that he listen to 9450kHz.

Mike had found E25 active with an apparent null message of 725 74 [or 72]. This continued until 1250z when ML and PLondon both heard the transmission terminate with a sharp burst of data. The condx were very poor at both MoK and PL’s QTH with an average noise level of at least S5.

Manolis [Crete] had another success on 26/10 which he notified via group:

• 9450kHz 1245z 26/10 AM mode.

1240z Carrier.
1245z No music intro, Arab man calling "780".
1248z "Message" x3. Message of 13 4-figure groups follows:

9394 3531 6210 1467 6518
5690 2666 5481 4555 7854
3353 8560 6210

1249z "Repeat" x3. Repeats msg.
1251z "End of message, end of transmission".

The audio quality was poor, I can't tell if this is due to the Solar Storm. QRM from a BC station on the same freq. The Arab man was more "professional". In the beginning I thought that the transmission was taped or synthetic like E03! [Tnx Manolis].

Manolis again copied E25 on 27/10:

He reported, "Reception really bad... I just managed to copy some groups to be sure that it was the same msg. Even Voice of Turkey on 9460kHz was weaker than usual."

For 29/10 Mamolis wrote:

Today's conditions were better, but there is still QRM on 9450KHz. E25 came up at 1243z, calling continuously "785 10". The man stopped at 1246z.

Via group Manolis mentioned,"While waiting for E25 I played around 9450KHz and I noticed that on 9435KHz a carrier was present at 1227z, turned off and came up again, then turned off completely at 1228z. Do you think it is related to E25? Looking for a new and "quiet" freq?" The subsequent posting from AnonUK stated, "Quite a possibility." So a freq worth paying some attention to. ENIGMA 2000 are certain that E25 is not directed towards Great Britain or Europe, that we can hear it is no doubt due to propagational matters. PLondon has only ever heard the E25 transmissions with great difficulty and E2k believes that the only signals of reasonable quality to have been intercepted in Great Britain are those taken by AnonUK and which appear in the Files section as a sound sample.

That Manolis can hear the station from Crete, an altogether better location for interception of these signals, is perhaps an indication of the anticipated point of transmission somewhere in the Middle East rather than Europe.

G04

Nil Reports

G06

PoSW writes, 'The G06 German YL continues with her alternate Thursday 1830z schedule with a repeat at 1930z the next day - it is as if the usual format of this family of number stations, i.e. a transmission with a repeat one hour later on a lower frequency, has been cut in two transmitted on two consecutive days.'

In his log PoSW noted that several regular schedules are still running;-

Thursday 1830z Schedule;-

Friday 1930z Schedule;-

First Monday in the Month Schedule;-

Sunday 2020 z Schedule;-

Other logs in support:

In a later letter PoSW wrote

“G06 German YL – Thursday schedule showed up on 23/10 at 1830z on 5924kHz, 10kHz lower than usual’ I had been keeping watch on 5934 and having heard nothing assumed G06 wasn’t going to appear but luckily I tuned LF and found her. 579 and 138 138 26 26 same as when last heard on 09/10.

Friday 24/10 1930z 5442kHz, the expected next day transmission, call 947 dk/gc as last night and the same as when heard on 10/10 [133/26]”

G22

Slavic stations

Before we move onto the Slavic Station logs DoK, our Slavic Desk, writes:

Once again we are again at a time of major changes in Frequencies and, as with chart 7 in the last Newsletter an amended chart will have to be issued mid-November.

I expect that on the 1^st November there will be changes in Frequencies but I hope the times of schedules will remain roughly the same.

Only minor changes have occurred since the last change on the 1^st September 2003.

Chart 8, which follows, should be filed for future reference.

Interesting occurrences during this period are now listed.

No separatives used and quite fast. Confirmed by AnonUK as M12 and heard again as:

This time and frequency had been used by M10 [family 1XA] but moved to 11417kHz. M12 is family 1B. Does this suggest that these two transmissions are linked and come from the same stable?

Acting on information received from AnonUK the following M10E was received:

Repeats and the full text, although logged, is not shown.

I had the intention to give details of the early morning, mid and afternoon irregulars but in view of time restrictions and possible changes that has been postponed.

A request relayed via PLondon from RN GB resulted in my logging the following transmission:

Series of v’s then at 1800z a repeat of that shown above.

[A mixture of terminology suggests the operator was perhaps also an operator.]

My thanks to AnonUK, PoSW and RN GB for their logs and information.

Recently whilst moving my books and shelves I selected two books for recommended reading.

• Codes and Ciphers, by Frank Higinbottam BA., FLA. Published 1973 by The English Universities Press Limited; ISBN 0 340 12493 8

• The Broken Seal, by Ladislas Farago. Published 1967, Random House [US] and in Great Britain by Arthur Barker Limited. [No ISBN stated]

This excellent volume covers American and Japanese Code Breakers and culminates in Pearl Harbour.

Good reading and Listening and until the next time ‘nazdar’! DoK – Slavic desk.

©DoK 31^st October, 2003

ENIGMA 2000 would like to thank, wholeheartedly, TraceyC for her part in scanning D’s piece in and sending across via email. Thanks to the wildcat strike by Post Office workers had TC not assisted with the article and chart you have just read it would still be on the Slavic Desk located somewhere in the Garden of England. Thanks Tracey, you’re a real gem!

S06

Before we move to the logs for this station here is a chart compiled by Gert in Holland and AnonUK of S06 scheds over the last months [Tnx Gert and AnonUK]

PoSW mentions that the S06 Russian Man seems to be slightly less active but the second and fourth Saturday 1700z + 1800z schedule never fails to appear as his subsequent loggings show:

Now onto others Sept logs:

PoSW continued into October with:

And others offered:

Apart from the usual Wednesday sendings AnonUK also found:

S06C

S10D